I'm with core on this one. You better be careful, especially since you're dealing with bank files. What is the nature of the files your transfering? Did I catch that you want to change their system over to a Linux backend? (Did you)/(are you going to) have to pull teeth to make that happen?
I'm sure everyone knows how I feel about passwordless SSH logons by now ;) - Sebastian On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Charles Stevenson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0700, Garrett P. Taylor wrote: > > I'm working with the bank trying to set up some automated file transfers > > using SCP/SFTP. > > Egads. > > > The biggest problem was prompting for password making scripting the > > whole thing, well, impossible. I got them to send me a .PEM file which > > has a private and public key. How do I make OpenSSH use it? I'm working > > from cygwin at the moment if that matters. I can do it from Linux if > > needed and will probably switch there eventually anyway since the cron > > daemon seems to work a lot better than Windows's stupid task schedule > > thing. > > http://webjob.sourceforge.net/Files/Recipes/openssl-convert-ssl-key-to-ssh-keypair.txt > > Good luck. Hopefully you are not transfering anything too > sensitive. ;-) > > peace, > core > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDX/b5GAuLrxOyeJMRAm3jAKCH6Ecw/EX7Nqv0jVVpJrZsxX5bKgCghyse > ChRAft9+oAJo3lnKlMP1X4E= > =1m2B > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
